This tutorial is an "update" of another article published some time ago in this same blog. That version no longer works, so I decided to talk about installing Popcorn Time 2017 in its version 0.3.10. For those who do not know what this fantastic program is about, tell them that this will allow the user to watch movies with great video quality, Yes indeed, in the original version (You can add subtitles to it).
The service provided by this program worked very well, until last year for various reasons it stopped doing so. From that moment on, forks began to appear, but none of them worked as well as their predecessor.
A few months ago it seems that the people who were dedicated to maintaining this application have released Butter project. With the have released this version of Popcorn Time 2017 which is working perfectly.
Download Popcorn Time 2017 on Ubuntu 17.04
To begin we will have to download the program. For this we can do from the browser by going to the project website. There the page will show us a button with the version of Popcorn Time that best suits to our operating system. We just have to click on that button and wait for the download.
The other option we have from Ubuntu is to open a terminal and use wget as shown below:
- 32 bit:
wget https://get.popcorntime.sh/build/Popcorn-Time-0.3.10-Linux-32.tar.xz
- 64 bit:
wget https://get.popcorntime.sh/build/Popcorn-Time-0.3.10-Linux-64.tar.xz
The two download options are equally valid.
Installing Popcorn Time 2017
To install this program in Ubuntu in a simple way, we just have to follow the following instructions. We start by opening a console and in it we write:
mkdir popcorntime
With this command we create the directory where we are going to unzip the file that we have just downloaded. I personally recommend doing it in our user's / home folder.
First we are going to move the downloaded file to this folder using the following command:
mv Descargas/[archivo descargado] popcorntime/
Now we move to the popcorntime folder.
cd popcorntime
The next thing we are going to do is unzip the file with the command:
tar xf [archivo descargado]
At this point we will create the shortcut in our Dash. For this we are going to use a script that I found in gith, which makes the process easier. To use it, we are going to download the content with wget:
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop/development/Create-Desktop-Entry
The content of this script can be seen using the link from any browser.
Once the script is downloaded, you will have to give it execution permissions. We will do this with chmod:
chmod +x Create-Desktop-Entry
Now we run it:
./Create-Desktop-Entry
This will ask us a question when creating the shortcut. You just have to answer "Y".
To finish alone we have to get rid of the downloaded file so that it does not stay there doing anything. We can do this from the terminal with:
rm [archivo descargado]
With this we give the installation can be concluded. Now we just do not have to go to the Dash and look there for Popcorn Time.
Popcorn time in the dash
When we run for the first time we will have to accept the conditions of use that will appear on the screen.
Once these conditions are accepted (which I recommend reading to be aware of everything) we can choose which movie to watch from a good list of available titles.